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KINGS PEEWEE GIRLS BOX TEAM
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The Kings peewee girls box team travelled to Six Nations for the Summer Shootout Tournament and came away with a silver medal.
The tournament opened with a tough loss to eventual tournament champions in the Peterborough Lakers. The game ended 10-2. It was a tightly contested game which featured some big hits and some dazzling goals from both sides.
The first saw Peterborough take a 3-1 lead to the break with a the Orillia marker scored on a beautiful passing play that was finished by Sierra Tryon. Tryon would then later draw a penalty as she sent the Lakers goalie flying with a big hit as she decided to leave her crease.
The Lakers would extend their lead over the next two periods to 8-1 before the Kings would reply with a goal from Grace Farr on a solo effort off her faceoff win as she rumbled her way through the Lakers defence. The Lakers would add two more goals to cap the game.
Game 2 saw the Kings meet up with the Whitby Warriors in a rematch from the Kings' bronze-medal victory over the host Warriors a the Whitby Chicks with Sticks Tournament in June. The Kings opened the game with a quick marker from Avery Thompson, who fired a long-range shot from outside to beat the Whitby keeper.
Willow Davidson would then go on to score her first of five against a Whitby defence that couldn’t keep her at bay. Sienna W. would add the third tally of the game. The Orillia defence came up large in this game shutting down the Whitby offence. Sara Pond, the Orillia netminder, was big in this contest, making four breakaway saves to help hold Warrior offence to two goals. This contest would end 7-2.
Game 3 saw the Kings play local rivals the Barrie Bombers. A win here would send the Kings to the championship game. The Orillia girls would go on to win this game by a score of 5-0.
The Kings defence would be stingy in this one, giving up very few chances and goalie Sara Pond continuing to be wall in the net when they did. The offence got rolling and would be spread out and would see five goal scorers.
Tallies from Shelly Ramos, Landyn Hill, Willow Davidson, Avery Thompson and capped off with a beautiful goal and run by Aliah Martin, who would split the defence and rifle a bounce shot home. This being one of the more complete games of the season. Tight checking and fantastic passing saw the Bombers goalie Morgan Lowe under constant pressure from the Kings shooters making many a big saves to keep the score what it was.
With this win it set up a rematch with the powerhouse Laker team for the “A” championship. The game began with scoring chances coming both ways with both goalies making many a fine save.
Both defences were playing tight and not letting many quality scoring opportunities with Peterborough adding a pair of singles to close out the first frame. The Kings would find themselves into some penalty trouble throughout the first and second period with special teams being their ultimate demise giving up four power-play goals and shorty.
The Kings would notch their first goal of the game off the stick of Willow Davidson. Midway through the period saw the Laker goalie venturing from crease again this time to be levelled by Willow Davidson. The ensuing conduct from the Lakers gave the Kings the chance they needed drawing three penalties.
However, this was not the Kings' day as they failed to score on the ensuing power plays. Final score would see the Lakers win 9-1 to take the gold. Despite the conditions of the arenas and the sweltering heat, the girls fought hard all tournament long and earned themselves the silver medal.
Now having medalled in the last two consecutive tournaments, the girls will look to build on these experiences as they head into provincials in August as their record improved to 16-5-1 on the season.
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